For All Types of Generic Strategies, a Company's Success in Sustaining

question 62

Multiple Choice

For all types of generic strategies, a company's success in sustaining its competitive edge depends on

• A)its market and competitive environment, a defensible niche, and a homogeneous strategic group.
• B)establishing a central theme for how the company will endeavor to outcompete its rivals and engage complementors with cooperative strategies.
• C)having resources and capabilities that rivals have trouble duplicating and for which there are no good substitutes.
• D)defining its differences in terms of product line, production emphasis, location, joint ventures, and strategic alliances.
• E)defining its differences in terms of marketing emphasis, strategic group intracompetition, and the means of maintaining strategy.

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Definitions:

Due Date

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